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EARTH DAY PROCLAMATION — Notre Dame Class officers look on Wednesday in Mayor Joe Gielen's office as the mayor signs a proclamation designating March 17 "Earth Day." From left are Billy Hoffpauir, freshman class; Debbie Meyer, sophomore class ; Jerry Trumps, senior class; Wayne Hensgens, Student Council president; Denis Reggie, Earth Day chairman ; and Marion Trahan, junior class.

'EARTH DAY'

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Green St. Patrick's Day

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Class officers at Notre Dame High School in Crowley have launched a project to emphasize the clean as well as the green on St. Patrick's Day. On March 17 students will turn out with mops, brooms, buckets, hoes, lawnmowers and whatever else they need to put the school's ecology in order and will take part in mass spring cleaning effort in observance of "Earth Day."

The students will report to their homerooms at 8:30 a.m. and, after an 8:45 a.m. mass, will gather for an assembly to hear a special guest speaker on ecology. At 10:15 a.m. they will go to work on their Earth Day Projects.

At noon they will stop for an "old fashioned lunch." Students will bring their own lunches since the school's cafeteria will not operate for the day. "We're

going to clean it too," Principal Dill said. At 1 p.m. work will resume on the projects, and at 2:30 p.m. school will be dismissed.

Class officers have organized the students into croups, each

group responsible for a certain area of the school buildings or grounds. When work begins pencil marks on walls and other defacing of the facilities will be corrected. The school yard also will be cleaned and mowed.

Student observers will be invited from other area schools to view the activities, Dill said, and the organizers hope the idea will spread. Inspection teams are currently scouring the campus and listing pencil markings and other such defacements or situations which need to be corrected.

With all the talk across the nation about ecology, the study of mutual relations between living things and their enviroments, the students have taken the initiative in the Earth Day project to "get involved," according to Principal Dill.

The objectives of the project are to develop in students civic pride, good citizenship, and awareness of their surroundings and realization of their responsibility to their environment, he said.

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